To help protect your security Internet Explorer has blocked this website from displaying content with security certification errors.

The only thing (as far as I can tell) that it is not showing is an ad from WETA.https://www.wetanz.com/collectibles/affiliate_show_banner.php?ref=7&affiliate_banner_id=25I get the ole dreaded red X instead of the ad. May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! ~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~Listen. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

I tried restarting the computer and then visited many other sites but it only occurs here. I get this:

"To help protect security, Internet Explorer has blocked this website with security certificate errors" ''What connects Nature to the spiritual, or requires the presence of the latter? In positive terms, as Alkis Kontos points out, when nature was still largely experienced as integral, alive and active, 'It was the spiritual dimension of the world, its enchanted, magical quality that rendered it infinite, not amenable to complete calculability; spirit could not be quanified; it permitted and invited mythologization.' And I would add, it still is and does.'' Patrick Curry-Defending Middle-Earth-Tolkien: Myth and Modernity - chapter: 'The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics.'

May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings! In the air, among the clouds in the sky Here is where the birds of Manwe fly Looking at the land, and the water that flows The true beauty of earth shows With the stars of Varda lighting my way In all the realms this is where I stay In the realm of Manwë Súlimo

that the site has security certification, but the certification was out of date. Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..." Dwarves: "Pretty rings..." Men: "Pretty rings..." Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.

And it's nothing you're doing wrong. The non-technical explanation is when the weta banner ad appears, your browser asks the weta website to validate that it's actually coming from weta, and the id that does that has expired. So the browser rejects it.

Technical explanation follows.

The web has a protocol called 'SSL' (which stands for secure sockets layer). This protocol allows data to be encrypted and transmitted across the internet with a higher level of security-- if you're using your credit card somewhere to pay for something online, for instance, the site handles the information through SSL.

The way SSL works is that there are companies out there (I work for one, but the most common one people have heard of is Verisign) known as Certificate Authorities. They issue digital certificates (certs) that work with the various browsers; these certs are something like a passport or driver's license-- they validate the identity of the company in question (in this case Weta): that they are who they claim to be. It keeps you from going to a site that's pretending to be your bank and get your information from you, and so on. So they're pretty handy things. But, like passports and driver's licenses, they expire periodically, and need to be renewed. It looks like Weta hasn't gotten theirs renewed yet, so it's generating errors.

Inferno. ====================== Good night, tOR.Nados. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely delete you in the morning. ====================== Elcenia

Tolkien was a Capricorn!! Russell Crowe for Beorn!!Avatar: Liberace - The other Lord of the Rings.

Quote of The Week: The thing is I always write in the morning, and I know that if I go to the Net I won’t write ... you can start in the most scholarly website and end up at Paris Hilton dot com .. GdT

I'm not getting them at work, just at home. The computer at work kills the popup and just leaves a message at the top of the screen about what happened. At home I have to close the popup box every time. ~~~~~~~~

May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! ~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~Listen. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

Then there is the red X at the bottom of this page. May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! ~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~Listen. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

The Red Carpet one seems to be the one triggering the warning for me. //
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories

May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! ~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~Listen. Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!